[Bug 2009303] [NEW] Make font preferences for Arabic locale agnostic

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Public bug reported:

Currently — if fonts-noto-core and fonts-noto-ui-core are installed —
fontconfig picks Noto Sans Arabic UI as the default sans-serif font for
Arabic, but only under an Arabic locale. The latter is to avoid a change
of the default sans-serif font (from DejaVu to Noto) for most other
languages only by installing fonts-noto-core.

But with fontconfig 2.14.1-3ubuntu1 the prerequisites have changed. Noto
is now preferred over DejaVu by default as soon as fonts-noto-core is
present, irrespective of Ubuntu's custom file for Arabic.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-January/042449.html

So we can and should drop the requirement to run under an Arabic locale
to have fontconfig pick the desired Noto fonts for Arabic.

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: In Progress

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Title:
  Make font preferences for Arabic locale agnostic

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently — if fonts-noto-core and fonts-noto-ui-core are installed —
  fontconfig picks Noto Sans Arabic UI as the default sans-serif font
  for Arabic, but only under an Arabic locale. The latter is to avoid a
  change of the default sans-serif font (from DejaVu to Noto) for most
  other languages only by installing fonts-noto-core.

  But with fontconfig 2.14.1-3ubuntu1 the prerequisites have changed.
  Noto is now preferred over DejaVu by default as soon as fonts-noto-
  core is present, irrespective of Ubuntu's custom file for Arabic.

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
  devel/2023-January/042449.html

  So we can and should drop the requirement to run under an Arabic
  locale to have fontconfig pick the desired Noto fonts for Arabic.

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